Yesterday, I competed in the Green Bay "long sprint" triathlon.  It was an 800 meter swim, 29 mile bike and 10k run.  It was 48 degrees with a 20 mph NE wind at the race start.  Gotta love Wisconsin!

The gun caught us a little off guard, but I got a good start to the swim and caught on at the end of the first group.  We broke up and I fell to the second group at the first turn buoy, but that's a pretty good place for me to be.  I got out of the water 5th and was about 30 seconds back from the leader and in 3rd place after T1.  I decided to make my move on the bike right away, and I took the lead a little over five miles into the bike.  I pushed it hard for most of the bike and had a four minute lead heading into T2 and I had a nearly five minute lead by the halfway point of the run.  From that point, I got to cruise into the finish and enjoy my first overall win and finally let my hands thaw out holding a cup of hot coffee and a couple pancakes with squeeze peanut butter.  My overall time was 2:02:54 and this was a great confidence builder for Ironman Couer d'Alene in two weeks. 

Later-

James Fields